Edgar Allan Poe may have been a gloomy Gus, but the way he’s usually portrayed — with sunken eyes and the look of death — may be dead wrong.

An A.C. Smith watercolor, one of three surviving Poe portraits, is to debut publicly Saturday. It shows an urbane, clean-shaven Poe sitting at a desk, pen and paper at hand and a wisp of a smile on a handsome face.